Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

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POM (Physician Order Management )

Screen shot of the Physician Order Management (POM) system. To the left of the screen shot is the following text:

Benefits

Increased Safety

The orders are clear and concise.

Orders are automatically checked against the residents allergy and adverse reaction information.

Medications are checked for duplicate therapy and drug to drug interaction, as well as for food to drug interaction.

Able to chose medications, Procedures, or I.V.'s

Notes:

Physician order entry, do you think that was a Challenge??? For some of the physicians it was instant buy-in and then there were the others. Some also not computer savvy, so it slowed them down more than they felt was necessary.

We still get a fair number of orders per fax, that have to be enter by the nursing staff, then the fax is scanned into the record, but there is a continual increase in the number of orders physicians input.